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LCC Accelerate

LCC Accelerate: Kickstart your creative enterprise

Do you want to kickstart your own creative enterprise?

LCC Accelerate is a creative business incubator programme, designed to help recent graduates take their creative business ideas to the next level.

Supported by experienced professionals, expert advisors, and successful industry entrepreneurs, this programme will enable you to accelerate your ideas and enhance your expertise as a creative entrepreneur.

About the programme

This 12-week programme is tailored for LCC graduates who have completed their degree within the past three years and are eager to define their own success, solve real-world problems, and make a positive impact on society.

What will you learn?

Throughout the programme, you’ll gain valuable skills and knowledge, including how to:

  • Build and launch new business ideas
  • Familiarise yourself with essential start-up tools and frameworks
  • Create a viable product or service, financial plan, and distinctive brand
  • Build a professional network
  • Master marketing and sales strategies
  • Pitch to potential investors
  • Use your business to address real-world challenges
  • Articulate your vision for your enterprise

What to expect

The programme offers:

  • A safe environment to develop your business idea
  • Expert talks from successful creative entrepreneurs
  • Practical workshops and group exercises
  • Individual expert mentoring to guide your progress
  • Pitching practice sessions
  • Opportunities for peer support and professional networking

Time commitment

You’ll need to dedicate approximately 7 hours per week to complete all programme activities.

Who should apply?

This programme is designed for creative graduates who completed their undergraduate or postgraduate courses at LCC within the last three years. You should be passionate about defining your own success, solving real-world problems, and making a positive societal impact.

We encourage applications from individuals who identify with one or more of the following groups:

  • People who are Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E), or from other groups that experience racism
  • Individuals who are deaf, disabled, neurodiverse, or affected by ableism
  • Those from economically marginalised communities or living in poverty
  • Members of the LGBTQIA+ community
  • Women, non-binary individuals, and those of other marginalised genders
  • Individuals who are care leavers or caregivers

2025 Programme dates:

Wednesday 26  February - Wednesday 21 May 2025 with the final showcasing event taking place on the 4 June.

I came to LCC Accelerate with vast experience, but that experience didn’t translate into how to set up a business. The financials, the business plans, all the little things that you don’t learn about at university. Having access to this, has allowed me to grow and develop my business into what it is now. You don’t get other opportunities like this.

— Abi Chapman, Founder of Accessify

Apply now

Applications for the 2025 programme now closed.

Contact us

If you encounter any barriers to participation, have any access requirements or require further details about the programme, please contact us at graduates@lcc.arts.ac.uk.

As an entrepreneur and media and communications professional who has had the privilege of working with LCC Accelerate, I can vouch for the programme’s invaluable impact on emerging creative talent. The founders I have encountered through this initiative consistently demonstrate remarkable passion, innovation, and drive.

— Samina Kiyani, founder and media and communications professional

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Contact

Telephone

+44 (0)20 7514 6500

Address

Elephant & Castle

London
SE1 6SB